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BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Live
VOLUME LXXI
LINEUPS RETURN
TO MEAT MARKETS
WITH OPA CONTROL
Meat Situation Is Familiar, with
Closed Markets and Limited
Selections
Market Butchering Quotas Cut
Drastically, But Even That
Little Unavailable
Lineups returned to Bluffton meat
counters this week, purchasers no
longer have the choice of cuts they
would like to buy, and markets ex
pect soon to be closing their doors
nearly half the time as OPA con
trol of meat prices went back into
■effect.
It was a familiar picture to shop
pers, reminding them of the hectic
months of scrambling for meat which
immediately preceded the “feast of
plenty” that started in July when
OPA price cealings were discontin
ued for an all too short 10-weeks
period.
Meat market operators say they
cannot possibly obtain enough meat
to remain open all the time, and
they will be forced to close their
doors whenever shortages occur.
Quotas Return
With the return of OPA price
control, the markets again are dn a
monthly quota basis, and are per
mitted to butcher only 70 per cent
of the pork killed in June, 1944,
and 90 per cent of the beef and calf
allotment for the same year.
During July and August when re
strictions were removed roughly
twice that amount of meat was sold
by the two local markets.
However, operators said that
markets cannot be sure of obtaining
even the quota allotments in the
weeks immediately ahead, for farm
ers sold practically all the livestock
they had preceding the return of
OPA control, and cattle and hogs
simply are not available on most
farms.
Markets Open Saturday
Both markets, however, are plan
ning to set aside a sizable percent
age of their limited meat supplies
for Saturday morning trade, and a
resumption of early Saturday crowds
can be expected in the business dis
trict. How long the markets can
operate on Saturday will depend en
tirely on how quickly their supplies
of meat are exhausted.
In preparation for the meat
shortage that everyone had antici
pated, locker patrons were busy fill
ing their frozen food compartments
with meat last week. Restaurants
stocked up as much as facilities
would permit, and the pinch prob
ably will not immediately be felt
by those who eat out.
Meat packing houses are closing
throughout the country in the face
of the livestock shortage, and the
national supply of meat is expected
by some sources to drop as low as
20 per cent of normal.
At least two months of severely
restricted meat supply are expected
before a noticeable improvement wall
be reflected in the movement of
livestock to market, and even then
the anticipated supply will not re
turn to normal.
Hessian Fly Free
Date Is Sept. 27
Allen county farmers can plant
their winter wheat any time on or
after September 27, and escape the
possibility of having crops damaged
by the Hessian fly.
County farm agent James Warner
announced the fly-free date has been
determined by both scientific tests
and practical experience for this
year.
In Putnam and Hardin counties
the fly-free date is Sept. 28.
Hessian fly damage has been on
the increase in the west central area
of Ohio just south of Allen county,
it was explained by the county
agent. This increase has been at
tributed largely to “volunteer” wheat
or that left on the ground following
combining.
Protect Tomatoes
From Late Blight
Ohio tomatoes should be protected
from late blight by applications of
fixed copper applied either as a dust
or as a spray. The dust can be made
by mixing 14 pounds of 7 per cent
fixed copper dust with 88 pounds of
filler. The spray is a combination of
4 pounds of 50 per cent metallic cop
per with 100 gallons of water. If to
mato fruits show rotten spots caused
by blight, an 8-8-100 Bordeaux mix
ture should be used. Applications
must be frequent and thorough.
Bid of the Galion concern for the
30-horsepower scraper was $2,873.
Delivery cannot be promised earlier
than next May, but in the mean
time the Galion concern will make
available to the town a used scrap
er for work on streets and alleys.
The Gailion company submitted
the only bids received by the coun
cil. Purchase of the scraper is
contingent on the availability of
funds under terms of authorizing
the contract.
CEMENT BLOCK CO.
IS ERECTING NEW
PLANT STRUCTURE
Industry Will Enter New Field
With Completion of Building
In October
Cement Block Co. Has Incorpor
ated Preparatory to Making
New Type Brick-Blocks
Preparatory to entering a new
field in the building construction in
dustry, the Bluffton Cement Block
Co. is erecting a new factory build
ing on the site of the former Cal Bal
mer sawmill and expects to be in op
eration in the structure next month.
A brick-block with natural brick
color, made by a new process from
cement and limestone, will be manu
factured by the firm in the plant.
In launching the community’s first
post-war industrial expansion pro
gram, the business formerly owned
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In New Locations
Woodrow Little and family are oc
cupying their home on south Main
street recently purchased from Wm.
Lahman. The residence on the R.
L. Triplett farm northwest of town
which they vacated will be occupied
by Mr. and Mrs. Ropp Triplett who
are expected here this Wednesday
after a ten days’ wedding trip in the
Adirondack region in northern New
York state.
Home From California
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fenton of
South Lawn avenue have returned
from a month’s trip to California
where they visited their son Donald
Fenton and family in Los Angeles.
Donald is a civilian employed by the
Army as a structural engineer. En
route home Mr. and Mrs. Fenton
visited her sister, Mrs. Catherine
McCoy in Billings, Montana.
With Service Men
Pvt. Sylvan Burkholder has re
turned to Camp Stoneman, Pitts
burgh, Calif., after spending an 18
days’ furlough with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Otis Burkholder and fam
ily of Col. Grove.
Duane Fett 1/c is spending a
15-days’ leave at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pleyel Fett
of Co. Grove. He will report next
Monday at Key West, Florida.
Bluffton High Students Pass Up
Modern Langt ages For Third Year
§2,873 Contract Let
For Road Scraper
Contract for purchase of a new
eight-foot blade road scraper with
scarifier was let Monday night by
the municipal council to the Galion
Ii-on Works and Manufacturing Co.
David Stearns S 2/c, of Bain
bridge, Md., is spending a leave
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Stearns of Spring street.
Football on a pre-war basis re
turned to the Bluffton college cam
pus this week, with a squad of 40
candidates reporting for Coach A.
C. Burcky’s practice opening call
Monday night.
It was the local school’s largest
practice squad in years, but there
was not too much cause for opti
mism on that count when it was
learned that Wilmington college,
first foe of the Beavers, has 75 can
didates, and all other Ohio schools
have shwn corresponding increases
in turnout.
Another complication is the fact
that many of the prospective Beav
er gridders have no previous exper
ience, and with them the Bluffton
coaching staff must “start from
scratch.”
However, Coach Burcky has vir
tually four weeks to whip his squad
into shape for their first start of
Enrollment in Business Courses
Continues to Show Marked
Increase
Bluffton College Grid Call Brings
40 Candidates For Beaver Eleven
AU Modern Foreign Languages
Dropped from Curriculum
This Year
With modern foreign languages
dropped from the Bluffton High
school curriculum for the third suc
cessive year because of lack of stu
dent interest, commercial and man
ual training studies continued to
grow in favor wuth senior high
classes, Supt. Ralph Lanham re
ported this week.
Only foreign language remaining
in the school curriculum is Latin.
No modern foreign languages have
been offered for three years. Last
spring a French class was offered to
students for 1946 registration, but
only three students were interested
and the class was dropped.
A continuing trend toward com
mercial subjects finds a general in
crease of 19% in students registered
in that department this fall. Eighty
two students are in five commercial
classes, in comparison with 69 for
the 1945-46 term.
Shorthand shows the principal
gain in student favor this fall, with
69 taking the course presented to
only four last year.
Industrial Arts Popular
Industrial arts, offered this fall
as a full-time department since loss
of a teacher early in the war forced
its discontinuance for three terms,
finds 72 high school students regis
tered for manual training and draft
ing. In addition there are 32 indus
trial arts students from the seventh
and eighth grades.
In four high school industrial arts
classes there are 53 students, and
19 others are enrolled for mechan
ical drawing.
Heaviest loss in students was suf
fered in the vocational agriculture
department, which dropped 23 per
cent, from an enrollment of 22 last
fall, to 17 this year.
Social science courses fell off eight
per cent in enrollment, from 142 to
132. Classes in science showed lit
tle change, with 110 students this
year and 105 last September.
There are 82 students in mathe
matics courses (85 last year) 34 in
home economics (33 last year) and
28 in Latin I (28 last year in Latin
II).
House Is Moved On
Lot In New Addition
Walter King has moved a house
from southeast of Bluffton to his
lots in the Fred Mueller addition on
East Jefferson street. The house is
now being fitted up for occupancy.
Warren Re-elected
Director Of Fair
Clyde Warren, of Orange town
ship, was re-elected a director of
the Hancock county fair board at a
meeting of the Hancock County Ag
riculture Society last week.
Real Estate Deals
The Mrs. Ida Lehman farm near
Beaverdam has been purchased by
Harvey Suter of Col. Grove. Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Haas and family
are occupying the place.
The Mrs. Rachel Shatto property
on Washington street has been sold
to Herman Steiner of Lima. Mr.
and Mrs. Shatto will move to Lima
and the property will be occupied by
the Steiner family. Both deals were
handled by Mrs. H. W. Althaus.
the season, a night contest to be
played with Wilmington at that
place on Friday, October 4.
Working with a squad that is
made up almost entirely of new
faces, the Bluffton mentor cannot
hope to be in a position to determine
his relative strength until after sev
eral weeks of workouts, and until
then Bluffton prospects must remain
as a virtual question mark.
Following the opener at Wilming
ton, Bluffton will face Kent State’s
powerhouse there on Oct. 12, and
play Manchester on the Indiana grid
iron Oq„ 19, before the team makes
its firf* appearance in this area,
against Ohio Northern at Lima on
October 26.
A game against Findlay college at
Findlay will follow on Nov. 1, and
the Beavers will face Defiance in
their homecoming here on Nov. 9.
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[HE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1916
BLUFFTON COLLEGE
OPENS WITH 235
IN STUDENT BODY
Many Changes In Faculty As
Post-War Enrollment Nears
Record Proportions
Men in Ropp Hall Women
Quartered in Lincoln Hall
This Year
Complete reversal of wartime stu
dent shortages at Bluffton college is
expected Thursday morning when
regular classroom activity starts on
the campus, following five days of
pre-regist ration activity.
Registration total, Wednesday noon
showed a total student body of 235.
Of this 100 were in the three upper
classes and 135 freshmen. This is
the largest freshman class in the his
tory of the college.
Opper class registration was held
Tuesday, followed by physical tests
after which freshmen registered
Wednesday and the first all-student
body chapel was held. Classes will
convene for the first time on Thurs
day morning.
A return to normal operations at
the college this fall have brought
numerous changes in the faculty set
up on the campus.
Faculty Changes
Harry Yoder, a graduate in 1932,
has joined the staff as assistant to
the president, field worker and in
charge of public relations. He is a
graduate of Hartford seminary,
formerly was on the college board of
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Former Bluffton Man
At Findlay College
Prof. Clifford Royer, music in
structor for Bluffton college and the
Bluffton public school system about
20 years ago, has been employed as
head of the music department at
Findlay college.
Prof. Royer comes to Findlay this
fall from Evansville College. Svans
ville, Ind., where he was heao oT the
voice department and choir director.
Prof. Royer followed G. A. Leh
man as head of Bluffton college’s
music department back in the
“twenties,” but remained here only
one year.
Local Man Heads
Field Crop Drive
H. B. Marshall, Bluffton, and D.
C. Campbell, Columbus Grove, will
head the Allen county campaign for
the Ohio field crop improvement
fund, to finance a program of re
search and education aimed at devel
oping superior strains of Ohio field
crops.
In Hancock county, co-chairmen
of the drive are Ernest S. Krauss
and Tell Thompson, both of Findlay.
Hardin county chairmen are O. C.
Powell, Ada, and Herbert Crane,
Kenton.
Evangelistiic Services
Will Close On Sunday
Two weeks of special services con
ducted by the Walker and Pike
evangelistic party at the Missionary
church will close Sunday night.
Rev. Walker has announced the
following topics:
Wednesday, The future punish
ment of the wicked Thursday, Does
the Bible teach annihilation? Fri
day, Hell and who are going there.
Services at 7:30 p. m. No Satur
day service.
Births
The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Swank,
Bluffton, a boy, Harlan Dennis,
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Evan Soash, Bluff
ton, a boy, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dilts, Ada,
a girl, Linda Sue, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lehman,
Rawson, a boy, Larry Ray, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Vinton Bucher,
Pandora, a boy, Ken Doyl, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Pore, Wil
liamstown, a girl, Sharon Ann, Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Denver Augsburger,
Bluffton, a boy, Roger Eugene, Sat
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Huttenlocher,
Cleveland, a girl born in Cleveland
hospital, Sunday. Mrs. Huttenlocher
is the former Eileen Todd, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Todd of
Franklin street.
Except for the customary Thanks
giving and Christmas recesses, Bluff
ton public school pupils will have
only one day of vacation during the
1946-47 school term.
No holiday is being granted this
year for the Putnam county fair in
October, and Washington’s and Lin
coln’s birthdays observed by schools
in earlier eras will find classes con
ducted on usual schedules.
In addition to the Thanksgiving
and Christmas vacation periods,
schools will be closed only on the
first day of pheasant hunting season,
November 15, Supt. Ralph S. Lan
ham announced.
Previously anyone who wanted to
go hunting on the opening day was
excused for the afternoon, but
classes were always so badly deci­
Crop Is So Short That Cider
Mills Drop Plans to Go In
to Fall Production
Late May Freeze Disastrous to
Crop Apples Priced High
er Than Peaches
Cider will be completely out of
the picture in the Bluffton area this
fall because of what is termed the
poorest apple crop seen here in
many years.
District cider mill operators said
this week that the dribble of apples
that might be available for making
cider will not w’arrant cleaning up
their equipment for production, and
those who like the tangy drink will
have to do without it this year.
Ordinarily cider mills are swing
ing into full production at this sea
son, but the supply of home grown
apples is so short that operations
appear to have been abandoned.
No School On First Day Of Pheasant
Season Putnam Fair Holiday Cancelled
Cider Out Of The Picture This Year
Eating Apples V ill Be At A Premium
Eating apples will be at a prem
ium because of the crop shortage,
general throughout Ohio, and an un
usual contrast Was noted here thq
first of the week with trucked-in
peaches selling at $2 a bushel,
while apples in stores were quoted
at $4.99 a bushel.
Unseasonably warm w’eather thru
March and April followed by a
heavy freeze in mid-May is respon
sible for Ohio’s blighted apple crop
this year, which is less than last
fall when the apple yield was un
usually short.
Youth Meeting At
M. E. Church Sunday
Candle light installation cere
monies for officers of the youth
group of the Methodist church will
be held at the church Sunday night
with the pastor Rev. Paul Cramer
in charge.
This will be the first of a series
of youth programs arranged for
the fall season.
Officers to be installed are:
President, Joanne Harmon secre
tary, Jo Haller 1st commission,
Sarah Jane Huser 2nd commission,
Bonnie Lou Burkholder 3rd com
mission, Lois Hauenstein 4th com
mission, Marlene Berry treasurer,
Nancy Frankhauser efficiency sec
retary, Peggy Eckenweiler adult
adviser, Elizabeth Mohr.
Instructor In Art
In Medina Schools
Paul Soldner, son of Mr. and Mrs.
G. T. Soldner of Cherry street left
the first of the week for Medina
where he has accepted a position as
assistant instructor in art in the
Medina county schools. Soldner, a
returned war veteran, w’as graduat
ed last spring from Bluffton college.
The bridegroom usually pays the
bill at a belling, but an Orange
township group encountered one with
a reverse twist when it cost not
only the bridegroom but also two
of his friends $35 each for violating
a Findlay anti-speeding ordinance
Monday night.
Drivers of the three cars involved
were the bridegroom Floyd Hartman
of Bluffton and two of his friends
Walter Benroth, Bluffton, and Leon
ard Henry, Ada. Each forfeited a
$35 bond posted for appearance in
the mayor's court in Findlay, Tues
day.
Hartman driving a car in which
he and his bride were attempting to
elude two pursuing cars of friends
mated that it was decided to dis
miss all classes in grade and high
schools this year.
No classes will be held on Friday,
October 25 when instructors attend
the district teachers meeting at To
ledo however, this is counted as a
day of school and technically does*
not count as a holiday.
For Thanksgiving pupils will miss
two days of classes, on Thursday,
November 28, the holiday, and the
following Friday.
Christmas vacation will begin with
the close of school on Friday after
non, Dec. 20, and continue until
Thursday morning, Jan. 2, the sup
erintendent said. School will offi
cially close next spring on Friday,
May 23.
WINTER FAIR AGAIN
DROPPED FUTURE
OF FAIR DOUBTFUL
Business Men Urge Holding
Fair Earlier and Showing
in Tents
Future of Project Will Depend
on Providing Satisfactory
Housing
Bluffton’s Mid-Winter fair has
been cancelled for the fifth succes
sive year, and what its future may
be in coming years will largely
depend on what arrangements can
be worked out to house the show,
as a cooperative project on the part
of the Bluffton Business Men’s as
sociation and the fair board of
directors.
Not Only The Bridegroom But Two
Of His Friends Paid At This Belling
The annual agricultural exhibit
has been discontinued since 1941,
first because of. wartime conditions,
then in 1945 and again in 1946
because of lack of suitable buildings
to house the various exhibits.
What may be the future of the
fair, a mid-winter feature in Bluff
ton for nearly a quarter of a
century, appeared uncertain this
week.
Sources close to the fair board
have indicated there is considerable
sentiment in favor of disbanding the
fair organization permanently be
cause there appears to be little like
lihood of holding fairs in the future.
Altho the board of directors
w’ould like to continue the fair,
buildings are not available to house
its many departments and additional
funds would be required to finance
the rental of tents.
At its meeting last week the
Bluffton Business Men’s association
expressed sentiment that the fair
should not be discontinued, altho
they agreed it is impossible to make
arrangements for the event this
year.
Business men recommended, how
ever, that a fair be planned for the
1947 season, and indicated they
would aid in contributing funds for
rental of tents which would be
required to house exhibits.
Should tents be used, time of the
fair likely would be changed from
its customary December dates to
late summer or early fall, and at a
time that would not conflict with
other fairs in this area.
New Dwelling Being
Built On Elm Street
Mrs. Gerald Tripplehom has start
ed construction of a dwelling on her
lot in the Berryhill addition on
West Elm street.
bent on belling were charged by
Findlay police with doing 70 miles
an hour thru the city.
None appeared perturbed by the
law’s interruption of their chase
and all laughed and joked while a
friend scouted around to raise the
$105 bond to effect their release,
then went merrily on their way as
if nothing had happened.
Hartman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Purl Hartman and his bride, the
former Jeannine Stewart, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Madison Stewart
all of Orange township were married
in Greenup, Ky., August 29. The
couple are living on a farm east of
Bluffton.
A Good Place to Trade
NUMBER 21
BLUFFTON’S NEW
AIRPORT WILL BE
READY OCTOBER 1
New Hangar Being Built on
Field East of Town Will
House 8 Planes
Class I Airfield Will Be in
Operation by First of Next
Month
Bluffton’s new airport, under
construction one and one-half miles
east of town on the former A. J.
Owens farm of 80 acres in Orange
township, will be in operation by
October 1, according to present
plans of Clayton Bixel, its owner.
Construction of a new hangar is
well under way at the new location,
and when the cement block structure,
180 feet long and 30 feet wide, is
completed, the field will be put in
use.
Bixel said the hangar building will
house an office, waiting room and
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Many Bluffton Youths
Are Going To College
With schools pening for the com
ing year, many Bluffton young peo
ple are planning to attend college
both here and elsewhere.
Among those who will be leaving
this fall are:
Jean Ann Steinman, Baldwin Wal
lace college, Berea.
Barbara Jean Triplett, Eastman
School of Music, Rochester, N. Y.
Florence Ann Biome, Art Stu
dents League, New York City.
Mary Margaret Basinger, Wooster
college, Wooster.
Sarah Amstutz, Miami university,
Oxford.
Alice Jean Bixel, Oberlin Con
servatory, Oberlin.
Beverly Biery, Oberlin College,
Oberlin.
Richard Mumma, Union Theologi
cal seminary, New York City.
Charles Jrippiehom, Wade Mum
ma, Robert Burkholder and Jack
Clark, Ohio State university, Colum
bus.
David Tosh, Wheaton College,
Wheaton, Illinois.
Earl Luginbuhl and Luella Lugin
buhl, Cincinnati Bible Seminary,
Cincinnati.
Dorothy Anderson, Juanita Bame,
Janice Hankish, Leroy Luginbihl,
Gareth Todd, Carroll Tschiegg,
Bowling Green State University.
Besides this number, 16 of last
spring’s high school graduating class
have made application to enter the
freshman classes of the following
colleges:
Ray Follas, James Harman, Har
ry Klay, Harold Hartman, John Lug
ibihl, Richard Minck, Robert Ram
seyer, Leonard Smucker, Mary Lou
ise Dean, Anne McGinnis, Phyllis
Marquart, Louise Soldner, Bluffton
College.
John Bracy, Allison Neuenschwan
der, Ohio Northern, Ada.
Paul Steiner, Taylor university,
Upland, Indiana.
Margaret Diller, Wheaton College,
Wheaton, Illinois.
Geneva Hankish who attended
Bowling Green university last year
has enrolled in Bluffton college.
Harry Minck, recently discharged
from the Navy has enrolled as a
freshman in Bluffton college.
Enters On Graduate
Course In Medicine
Dr. Jeanne Diller, St. Louis osteo
path and former Bluffton resident
has entered upon a two-year gradu
ate course in surgery and obstetrics
at the Stone Memorial hospital at
Carthage, Missouri.
Her mother, Mrs. W. E. Diller,
who has been with her daughter in
St. Louis has accompanied her to
Carthage where they will live dur
Jng the two year period. After com
pleting her studies Dr. Diller will
resume her practice in St. Louis.
Hybrid Corn Workers
Enjoy Picnic Outing
Harold Mark, hybrid seed corn
producer, Washington, C. H., decided
15 Alabama w’orkers who had been
detasseling corn deserved some extra
recognition. The group was given a
conducted tour over the Ohio State
University farms, a picnic following
the campus visit, and tickets to the
ball game that night at Red Bird
Stadium. The Alabama workmen
are young farmers coming to Ohio
during the slack season for farm
work in their state.